Match Each One With the Correct Definition:
Direct Democracy __
Republic __
Representative Government __
Social Construct __
Rule of Law __
Separation of Powers __
Divine Right __
Natural Rights __
Rationalism __
Fundamentalism __
10. Forms of direct participation of citizens in democratic decision making, in contrast to indirect or representative democracy.
9. a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.
8. a system of government in which citizens elect representatives who propose and vote on legislation or policy initiatives on their behalf.
7. an idea that has been created and accepted by the people in a society Class distinctions
6. an act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies.
5. the restriction of the arbitrary exercise of power by subordinating it to well-defined and established laws.
4. a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
3. rights that people supposedly have under natural law.
2. the principle or habit of accepting reason as the supreme authority in matters of opinion, belief, or conduct.
1. the doctrine that the right of rule derives directly from God, not from the consent of the people.
